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Hi all,
Now that COSHH E-tool has been discontinued, does anyone know of any other online tool or have a form or anything else that can be used in a similar manner to COSHH E-tool? If not, please can anyone suggest the easiest way to do so going forward? Thanks.
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The COSHH Essentials tool implemented a process described in a document called, if I remember correctly, the Technical Basis of COSHH Essentials, which as far as I know you can still get on the HSE website. This document essentially gives an algorithm for the assessment. So you start with a table in which you can look up which hazard codes give you which hazard classes, and then there are tables about vapour pressure and quantities. It is possible but laborious to follow it just as it is (I have done this). Someone with coding skills would quite easily be able to replicate the tool.
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Originally Posted by: Kate  The COSHH Essentials tool implemented a process described in a document called, if I remember correctly, the Technical Basis of COSHH Essentials, which as far as I know you can still get on the HSE website. This document essentially gives an algorithm for the assessment. So you start with a table in which you can look up which hazard codes give you which hazard classes, and then there are tables about vapour pressure and quantities. It is possible but laborious to follow it just as it is (I have done this). Someone with coding skills would quite easily be able to replicate the tool.
I don't suppose you know someone who has replicated the tool (in the manner you described), do you? I can use some formula's in excel, but I doubt I could replicate it myself.
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No, I don't - but I wouldn't be surprised if someone has.
There have long been paid-for online "COSHH assessment" systems that do much the same thing but with padded out, colourful outputs and sold with hyped up claims about compliance. They don't really do much more than the free tool did, but they try to give every appearance of being a whizzy way to guarantee COSHH compliance (which of course they can't).
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Could you still use it via the wayback machine? Though is its information out of date? Chris
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